We’ve Been Serving Residents for 30 Years! On Thursday, October 15, 2020, WCBR celebrated 30 years of providing quality active living for seniors. Where has the time gone? So much has taken place during the past 30 years. Thanks to our residents, associates, and leadership team, WCBR has grown in size while building an outstanding reputation in our community, throughout the Commonwealth, and across the nation. And, though the world around us has changed, we have not. We still have the same values; we care about, look after,

and protect each other — exactly the same way we have since the day our doors first opened. In spite of the pandemic which has put a big damper on the way we would traditionally commemorate this milestone, everyone at WCBR is doing all they can to celebrate our 30th anniversary in a safe manner. These times, too, shall pass and we will remember them for the rest of our days. Upon reflection, we have learned a great many things during the pandemic and we will continue to adjust as necessary to meet it head on. We have also been forced, during this time out, to look inward and consider what is truly important in our lives.

Cheers to all for a great 30 years, and optimistic wishes for many more years to come! WCBR’s 30th Anniversary Planning Committee page 2 November 2020 happenings Thankfulness “It’s so sad that you’re moving here in the midst of the pandemic,” said everyone after I arrived in late May. No dining room, no activities, no fun. Well, between a few old friends and some new, I’ve felt warmly welcomed here at WCBR. First, there was Nancy Grimes and the Welcome Committee, then calls and invitations from old friends who live here. I’m especially grateful for three wonderful women not known to me previously (you know who you are), who went out of their way to befriend me and introduce me to others. Not to mention the Photo credits Isabelle Halley des Fontaines dogs and their walkers: Wahoo, Winslow, and little Fiona. Because of pets and people Come Ye Thankful People, Come like these, it hasn’t been sad at all! In keeping with the November happenings Leanne Grove “thankful” theme, the Associates Christmas Fund Committee has sleuthed the halls and byways of WCBR and discovered the many ways residents continue to express their gratitude for the kindness of associates. From simple handwritten appreciation signs on doors, to computer-designed colorful expressions, to the elaborate, “Thank You Each & Every Associate, You have made us feel cherished since we arrived.” sign made by new residents who moved in during the pandemic. The message is clear . . . WCBR residents appreciate their associates. Other than the door signs, there is a good way to express our gratitude. The Associates Christmas Fund is a means by which WCBR residents may contribute monetarily to the associates. By contributing generously to this year’s fund, all residents may be a part of the annual gift giving to our very deserving, hard-working associates.

Please remember to send your check This mystery balloon was on my doorstep by December 1st, made payable to the for my birthday. I love it and am very Associates Christmas Fund, attention amused and curious about where it came Jim Kingsbury, Committee Chair, A7505. from. I understand there was another It is your way of saying “Thank you mystery balloon reported at WCBR a few SO much” to every Associate. weeks ago, also with no known source. Kay Ansell Mary Beth Wells happenings November 2020 page 3

Residents Helping Residents (RHR) wait for the surprises Dining Services is going to spring on us at the Thanksgiving Lets all give a big hand to the helping feast. We have a lot to give thanks for. hands! Bo Hopkins and the RHR group assist residents with a host of needs, WCB R is a community, a collection of including technology issues. During the citizens who think about the needs of others. last three months, the Tech members of this Our community is acting to reinforce the group have helped more than 50 residents. disciplines of behavior and investment that are being undertaken to maintain our Many, many thanks go to each of them: health. Think of the new and unexpected Dave Brant, Chris Roberts, Isabelle Halley roles that Associates have been asked to des Fontaines, Steve Goldstein, and others play and have done so willingly and well. who have rallied to the cause and engaged Think of the care and skill our Administration in helping our residents! has shown as they lead us through these Sammy Barnes and the WCBR IT Team times. We are constantly giving gifts to each other, building respect and gratitude. We have a circle of interdependence that Gratitude Builds Community ties us together. This community is to be November is a month when we reflect on thanked, and I am thankful that I am a all the things for which we are grateful. It part of it! is the time of harvest and a time to gather Charlie Stamm family around. It is also the time for tailgating, football games, and annual To the Library Committee: playoffs. This November will be especially Thank You! poignant. It may seem that we will have to forgo these customs because of the WCBR ’s associates are very appreciative extraordinary times we are experiencing. of all of the excess books that the WCBR This pandemic is a serious and deadly Library Committee has donated to us for challenge. our reading pleasure following the Fall Book Sale. It is a very thoughtful gesture. In spite of the reality of our restrictions, I think our community is responding well. There is nothing like a good book from the Think of the many programs, extra efforts Library — the sound a binding makes when and creative workarounds that have taken a new book is opened for the first time by place. For the shutdowns and restrictions, an excited reader, the crinkle of tissue-thin alternatives were created such as exercise pages between the fingers, the sometimes and yoga classes that could be viewed sweet, musky smell from an old book online, residents providing safe rides to the that wafts into a reader’s polls and other destinations, the Library’s nose and lingers . . . You Book Sale with coronavirus precautionary don’t get those sensory measures in place, and a modified Walk to elements reading an iPad! End Alzheimer’s. Again, thank you from all There are things to smile about this year. of us. We are inventing new pastimes and learning WCBR’s Associates to use technology creatively (think ZOOM). For a limited time, donated We have probably rediscovered old family books are located on carts recipes as we eat at home. We celebrated in the back hallway outside WCBR’s 30th Anniversary with great flourish the café and are available and enjoyed a delicious dinner. I can hardly to all associates. page 4 November 2020 happenings Gratitude Wall This is my “Gratitude Wall.” Our daughter started one in her home and suggested that I do the same. Every Post-it Note is supposed to remind me of how much there is to be thankful for. And if I can’t think of something to post, given the prevalence of the pandemic blues, I’m supposed to sit and wait . . . sit and wait . . . until a whisper of gladness rises in the heart. Then add it to the wall. Jane Sigloh

Thankful’s Inheritance Thankful for the breath of life, For living in a home without strife, For sunrises and sunsets, Family and friendships, our sure bets. Thankful for living in a country of the free, Thankful for love, laughter and liberty. We are blessed as we gather around a table of plenty, Thanksgiving is a time to share with many, Especially with your friend at the front gate. Knowing in your heart, gratitude is the best Did You Know? Inheritance we can give ourselves, above Did you know that WCBR’s Security team all the rest. must personally call and/or visit you each Geraldine Dearborn time you forget to check in with the Front October 1, 2020 Desk between midnight and 10:00 a.m. using the “check-in” button on one of your pull cord boxes? If you consider how many TOWN HALL residents WCBR has, that can add up to a lot of time when Security is pulled away Wednesday, November 11 from other safety-related responsibilities. Please make a concentrated effort to be 2:00 p.m. on Channel 972 mindful of their time and check in with or https://it.wc-br.org/live them as required for your own safety. (See WCBR’s Resident Handbook, page 4.) Don’t Forget! Security does a great job keeping us safe. This is one way we can help them. happenings November 2020 page 5 Veterans Day: Memories While stationed at Stewart AFB, I was on the WAF softball team. We would fly to A Lady Vet different Air Force bases to play against In 1951, after graduating from high school other WAF teams on weekends. There in Portsmouth, NH, I joined the Women in were many other volunteer activities for us the Air Force (WAF). My parents drove me to to participate in when off duty. Manchester, NH, where I boarded a train The education I received in the Air Force for Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, carried me into the computer world for TX. I was very excited about travelling as the rest of my career. After my honorable I had never been more than 50 miles from discharge, I continued in the machine home before. I was accompanied by another accounting field at West Point Military recruit and we ate in the dining car and Academy, Oakland Naval Supply Center, slept in the Pullman car just like normal and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. After that, travelers. We changed trains two days I worked 27 years for the IRS in Andover, later and boarded a troop train on the MA, and Washington, DC. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (MKT) where I had four younger brothers; three of them we met up with a lot of other recruits. followed me into the military. The oldest, When we arrived in San Antonio, we were Roy, joined the Air Force in 1955. He was loaded into trucks and transported to the stationed in Florida, Alaska and Edwards air base. It was after midnight when we AFB in California. During the Vietnam War, arrived, but we were taken to the mess Richard was drafted in 1962 and Roger hall to have something to eat. That was the was drafted in 1970. They were both in the first of my memorable Air Force experiences. Army Artillery and trained in Oklahoma. We were served chili and tortillas, both of Fortunately, they were both stationed in which were very foreign to this country girl Germany and not in Vietnam. Two of my who had never had any sort of spicy food. brothers are still living; Roy in Idaho and Then it was off to the barracks. I didn’t Bob in Florida. sleep much that night and couldn’t wait for To learn more of my story, go to https:// Basic Training to begin. ladyvetusa.com/2020/09/26/meet-mary- After completing 8 weeks of basic training, hamrick-korean-war-era-veteran. I was stationed at Lowery AFB in Denver, Mary Hamrick CO, and attended IBM Machine accounting school. After graduation I was assigned to Headquarters Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF) at Stewart AFB in Newburgh, NY. My office was in charge of record keeping for all of the actions on-going in Korea. We worked weekdays with weekends off, except for special duty assignments and ALERTS, when we were called to duty at any time. An ALERT could last for hours or days depending on the severity of the situation and we were locked down at our duty stations for the entire time. One day, after I got my monthly pay check, I figured out that I was making 25 cents an hour, The Chisholm family veterans: Mary—Air Force, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Roger—Army, Richard—Army, Roy—Air Force. page 6 November 2020 happenings Remembrances of Eileen Foster it was: The elderly parents reuniting with in her 100th Year their son as a grown man and meeting their grown grandson for the first time! (As told to Sylvia Valloric, scribe)

Before General Alfred Jodl surrendered the German forces in 1945, the Nazis had planned to establish a redoubt in the Stuttgart area. Due to the Allied Forces’ Eleanor Porter November 3 swift advance, this was not possible. Mary Evelyn Rogers November 3 The American forces sought to quickly Peter Buchanan November 4 bring normalcy to the area. Americans in Rosemarie Koch November 4 the United States wanted to assist in this Mary Winslow November 4 effort, particularly the Lutheran Church Marc Fitzwater November 4 auxiliaries. To this end, clothing shops were established under the supervision of Robert Knospe November 6 German social workers. My husband was Leon Wheeless November 6 part of the American Zone Constabulary, T.C. Dickerson November 7 and I volunteered one to two days a week Janet Larie November 7 in one of these shops. Iveagh Gott November 8 One morning, an elderly German woman entered the shop with her young grandson Dee Henderson November 9 to see what children’s winter clothing had Gene Williams November 10 arrived in the shipment from southwestern Lois Welch November 10 Pennsylvania. After much perusal in the Barbara Castelli November 11 boy’s section, the grandson appeared Pat Schnatterly November 12 clutching a pair of cowboy boots with pointed toes and high heels, which were Mac Dean November 14 much too big. His grandmother tried to Frances Peterson November 14 dissuade him of his choice, but he was Mimi Tung November 16 adamant and left the shop cradling his Peggy Devan November 17 boots and a winter jacket. Ellen Evans November 17 From that time forward, we always knew when he entered the shop by the sound of Eugene Pollock November 17 his oversized cowboy boots clattering on Caleb Pennock November 18 the wooden floors. David Youngs November 19 *** LizBet Hopkins November 21 Little known fact: Admiral Karl Dönitz, who Cathy Barton November 23 later in 1945 became the German chancellor, Mona Beard November 25 and his wife had already lost two sons at Jane DeFreitas November 25 sea. Out of fear for their last son, they Susan Eiseman November 26 sent the 10-year old to Detroit, Michigan, where he was educated, married and had Mildred Abraham November 28 a son of his own. As a young man, this son Marleigh Baratz November 28 learned of his father’s past and offered a Rohn Laudenschlager November 28 prepaid visit back to Germany. The father John Scott November 29 agreed and the two went. What a reunion happenings November 2020 page 7 WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S Thank you to all who participated in WCBR’s October 24 Walk to End Alzheimer’s. It was a beautiful fall day and we counted 30 walkers. We are also pleased to announce that our community raised $3,360. Many thanks for your support.

Walking the Labyrinth at WCBR For my Alzheimer’s Walk route, I decided to include a circuit of the WCBR labyrinth. For me, it provides a place to foster balance, in both the physical and spiritual sense. The path requires close attention to walk- ing and a meditative pace. You may ask “Why the labyrinth?” To be honest, I’m something of a labyrinth aficionada; I collect them, not as objects, but as experiences. Wherever I am, I seek them out. In fact, when my daughter and daughter-in-law were encouraging us to move from Palo Alto to WCBR, the labyrinth was one of the things they made sure I appreciated, knowing I’d be leaving several well-loved sites in the San Francisco area. For me, WCBR’s labyrinth is best walked in the morning when it is bathed in sunlight. (Sometimes, too much, it’s true.) With hills and open sky to the north and east, and a glimpse of sky to the west, I feel surrounded by natural beauty. Each time I walk it, I am grateful that it was incorporated into the WCBR campus. Nancy Baum page 8 November 2020 happenings Musings . . . Dancing with Dan Some nights before dinner we dance. On Saturday night the music is from the Lawrence Welk Show. Other nights, Alexa will play almost any request. Dan is in his big blue chair moving his feet some and his arms less, but seldom at the same time. I move gently around the small room, perhaps doing a bit of a waltz or a samba or whatever the music requires. The beat is more important than the feet. My favorite dance music is “Begin the Treeline at Dusk by Randy Baskerville Beguine” by Artie Shaw. Dan’s favorite is “Chattanooga Choo Choo” by Glenn Miller. When traveling, I tend to take my more He knows all the words, so he usually portable gouache paints and do small sings along. We will keep dancing until the studies which I often repeat in larger oils music dies. upon returning home to Virginia. I chose Harriet Mohler gouache as it is more opaque-looking than watercolor and it more closely resembles oils, which is my preferred medium. Before traveling, I fill up a small watercolor booklet with pages of many undercoats for future traveling pieces. Recently, I found iridescent undercoats of acrylic which are exciting to use. In this case, the color was bronze! This painting, Treeline at Dusk, was done while Bill and I were visiting our homestead in Tennessee recently. Randy Baskerville

Now I Think Now I think . . . I know why the caged lion paces. Boredom and a need to move. Harriet Mohler

Peggy Harbert’s Gardening Tips Saving Geraniums for Next Year Dump geraniums out of containers, shake off the soil and place in large paper (not plastic) bag. Do not cut back. Place bag with geranium(s) in your locker where it will remain until next spring when further Pretty Morning Walk, photo by Mary Hamrick instructions will be provided. happenings November 2020 page 9 Foundation News worked out, but the program is expected to be underway in the near future. Dear WCBR Residents, These three programs are projected to The WCBR Foundation Trustees recently cost no more than $32,100. approved four new programs with the goal 4. The last Foundation action to benefit of supporting our dedicated associates. our associates is to provide initial funding For safety purposes, WCBR administration for COVID-19 testing. This program has requires some associates to wear protective shared jurisdiction with the Corporate shoes and health care grade work clothes Board, but due to a couple of technical called scrubs. issues, the Foundation moved quickly so 1. The Foundation approved funding of up there would be no break in funding for the to $50 plus tax toward the purchase of weekly testing. Accordingly, the Trustees one pair of safety shoes for each of the approved payment of up to $250,000 273 associates required to wear them. over six months for COVID-19 testing of In general, the required shoes may be WCBR associates. This is in addition to two strengthened with steel toes or, for those generous contributions from donors which working primarily on wet services, be skid total $33,000 for this purpose. The regular resistant. testing protocol will help keep WCBR’s 2. In a second program, the Foundation associates and residents safer during the approved funding of up to $50 plus tax pandemic. toward the purchase of scrubs for each of All of these programs are funded by the 105 associates required to wear them. the thoughtful and kind contributions of Scrubs are hospital clothes worn by Foundation supporters. Moreover, they do workers involved with patient care. They not touch the funds dedicated to the are easy to launder or replace if damaged important Fellowship Program providing or stained. confidential assistance to residents in need. WCBR will coordinate the purchase of this Thank you for your continued support of equipment to insure quality supplies. The the WCBR Foundation. Trustees felt that it was appropriate for Jim Greene the WCBR Foundation to financially assist Chair, WCBR Foundation our associates with their equipment needs during these difficult times. It helps the associates and residents who benefit from their wonderful care. 3. WCBR’s health care facilities employ Residents of our local precinct who have Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) who not yet voted will have a final opportunity provide for residents in these areas 24 to do so from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on hours a day. As many as 25% of all WCBR Tuesday, November 3, at the Elks Lodge, associates are employed as CNAs in off Route 20, next to Darden Towe Park. these areas; unfortunately, this position All voters must bring identification papers, experiences high turnover. Health Services wear masks, and maintain social distancing. and Human Resources are collaborating on WCBR resident volunteers are willing to a focused training and retention program transport any residents who need rides for CNAs. An element of the program will to and from the polls. To arrange a ride, be to increase retention beyond the first please call x2315 or x3244 on or before year of employment, including a retention November 3. bonus. Some of the details are still being John Surr page 10 November 2020 happenings Notices and Announcements Calendars and Cards If you receive calendars and greeting cards that you do not want, there is a box in the RIC for them. I am collecting them for use in the Health Center, Catered Living, and Vista. Mary Hamrick

Wellness and Exercise Committee Promotes Fitness by Publishing Walking Maps Are you bored with the same walk you take every day? Are fretting about getting your two miles in on rainy or snowy days? Are you wondering how far it is from the Pantops entrance down to and around the pond? The WCBR Wellness and Exercise Augusta County, Virginia by Terry M. Coffey Committee (WEX) has provided answers and solutions by publishing five maps that will be WCBR Gallery Walk posted in the RIC, the Library, and in the WCBR’s Gallery Walk artist for November Fitness section on the Residents’ website. is Terry M. Coffey from Charlottesville. A The walking maps have detailed directions Virginia native, she has, for the last four and distances around WCBR campus trails, decades, studied discipline in lettering and including a tennis court walk and the second gilding techniques with master calligraphers floor corridors of all three buildings. The and with master painters from the Cape indoor routes are measured in legs that you School of Art, Provincetown, MA, and the can add together to gauge your mileage. School of Light and Color, Sacramento, If you would like to wander off campus, CA. Most recently, working solo in her two maps suggest routes around Sentara downtown studio as a protective measure Martha Jefferson Hospital and the Hilton against COVID-19, she took online classes Garden Inn. with Kelli Folsom Fine Art, concentrating on light and composition in oils. For Terry, Special thanks go to the cartographer, Cal the source of light is a fascination that Fowler, for creating the original maps, and translates to any subject. to Matthew Barresi and Louise Dudley for rescuing them and adding some graphics Oil paintings predominate in this exhibit, to make the routes even easier to follow. but you will also view works citing favorite Feel free to make copies if you would like quotes in gilded calligraphy combined with your own personal collection. watercolor and detailed elements. Mary Kathryn Hassett Terry is a long-time member of the BozART Fine Art Collective and also the Washington WCBR Book Group Calligraphers Guild. In addition to the Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the WCBR aforementioned mediums, her repertoire Book Group will not meet in November. includes acrylic texture paintings, as well The book for December is The Namesake, as jewelry design and creation using by Jhumpa Lahiri. Call Nancy Bonner at gemstones and fine metals. To see more x2777 if you have any questions. of her work, visit www.terrymcoffey.com. happenings November 2020 page 11 Library Notes Chaplain’s News Thanks to long-time resident Craig Smith, There are just four more Sundays left in this our library has a wonderful collection of his liturgical year. The first Sunday of Advent physician son’s daily updates during the (and the beginning of a new liturgical year) height of the COVID-19 crisis in New York is November 29. Father Henry Minich will City last spring. be leading that Vesper service and will speak about the beginning of Advent and Dr. Craig R. Smith, head of surgery at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical what it means to be moving into a new Center, emailed his colleagues each evening liturgical year. We have a great line-up for about conditions and priorities within the Vespers this month, and I hope you find hospital, as well as his broader observations their words edifying. and reflections. Together, these updates form As your chaplain, I am aware that it may a moving and highly readable account, with have been some time since you have seen bits of history, literary references, and words your own pastors. As a result, I have been of encouragement woven in. working on connecting with local clergy to Posted on the medical center’s website, invite them to conduct a Vesper service these emails quickly became known more for our community. You can look forward widely. The transcript in our library to seeing more community clergy on the includes articles about them in the New roster in the future. If there is a church York Times and the Wall Street Journal. you would like me to reach out to, The latter said, “the pandemic’s most please let me know ([email protected] powerful writer is a surgeon,” while the New or x2560). York Times critic called him “a medical Chaplain Elaine Tola poet-philosopher of our own moment.” Service of Remembrance This document is on its own table in the WCBR’s Annual Service of Remembrance library and is not to be checked out. The will be aired on Sunday, November 15, at emails may be read online at https:// 5:00 p.m. on in-house Channel 972. columbiasurgery.org/news/covid-19-update

-dr-smith-51220 where you will find the Vespers Leaders final one which is dated May 12, 2020. Earlier emails are included as links at the Sundays at 4:00 p.m. on Channel 972 bottom of that page. November 1: All Saint’s Day The Rev. Elaine Tola New Gateway to Library Services November 8: The Rev. Sheri Winesett Do you want to know what new books and November 15: Clergy from Westminster donations have been added to the library’s Presbyterian Church collection? How about which books have November 22: The Rev. Pat Nabers been checked out the most often? Maybe you would like to renew your book online? November 29: Fr. Henry Minich

There is a new “gateway” to each of those services, and much more. Just click on the Library icon on the home page of the In Memory of WCBR residents’ website. Some functions which relate to your personal borrowing Alyce-Fay H. Hawley will require a password, but most of them February 9, 1930 – October 1, 2020 do not. Jump on in and explore. Louise Dudley page 12 November 2020 happenings

canal is xxa UNESCO Heritage Site. Beautifully Watch WILL classes landscaped, it meanders through the heart on WCBR Channel 972 of Ottawa. Mondays at 2:30 p.m. November 23 The WILL Team has some delightful and diverse sessions Earl Dudley: planned for the month of November. We Being a Supreme Court believe you will not want to miss any Law Clerk of them. Enjoy from the comfort of your In a behind-the-scenes look living room! at the U.S. Supreme Court November 2 during the 1967 term, this talk will focus on what judicial law clerks do, how they interact There will not be a WILL class because the with the Justices, and personal remembrances previously scheduled presentation has been of Chief Justice Earl Warren, in particular. postponed. One case on which Earl worked will serve as an example of the process by which the November 9 Court reaches its eventual decision. This case Horst Wallrabe: raised the question whether it is “cruel and Circadian Rhythm unusual punishment” (prohibited by the 8th Amendment) to convict a chronic alcoholic The circadian rhythm or ‘body of the crime of being drunk in public. clock’ controls many functions and physiological processes in the human November 30 body, including the wake-sleep cycle. The ‘clock’ is highly conserved during evolution David Speedie: and found in animals, plants, and bacteria. Mikhail Gorbachev — Apart from the ‘Master Clock’ in the brain, Saluted in the West, virtually every cell in the body has some Reviled in Russia type of clock. This rhythm can be disturbed by genetic and environmental factors (e.g. jet This presentation will deal lag, shift work, noise, artificial light) causing with Mikhail Gorbachev's rapid rise through health issues. Some interesting aspects of its the ranks of the Communist party: his modest effect in ‘sleeping trees’, arctic animals and beginnings in rural Russia, his recognition as the timing of chemotherapy for cancer will an international statesman, his complex be presented. relationships with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and his eventual November 16 overthrow with the implications for both the USSR and post-Soviet Russia. Charlie Stewart:

Canada — The Halifax Explosion and The You, Too, Can Present a WILL Class! Rideau Canal Many of you in the WCBR community have had fascinating careers or have hobbies and We all saw the devastation from the Beirut passions that you would like to share. explosion in August. There was a similarly Preparing and delivering a course enriches devastating explosion in the Halifax, Nova the lives of both the instructor and the Scotia harbor in December 1917. Both of these audience. Residents interested in offering a disasters were the result of human error. WILL course should contact Mitch Sams or Following the War of 1812, the Rideau Canal Ross Thomas to discuss topics and dates. was built for defense. It extends from Ottawa If you do not wish to prepare a Power to Kingston on Lake Ontario and has been in Point lecture, we now offer the opportunity continuous use since its in 1832. Today the to present a Q&A session on your subject. happenings November 2020 page 13 Fitness and Wellness News Upcoming Wellness Challenges Fitness Center Appointments Thanksgiving and Diabetes Residents are permitted to schedule up to Disease Trivia three 40-minute appointments to use the Mental Wellness, November 2 — 6 Fitness Center or Walking Track/Stretch Not only is November the month when we Area each week. During their sessions in celebrate Thanksgiving, it is also American the Fitness Room, residents can use cardio Diabetes Month. Our wellness challenges equipment and select resistance training for the month will begin with some trivia machines. Sessions in the Walking Track/ questions about Thanksgiving and Diabetes. Stretch Area include use of the mat table, Numbered questions will be displayed on balance equipment, handheld weights, slides on Channels 970 and 972 from Monday, the stretch machine, a NuStep, and the November 2, through Friday, November 6. walking track. Throughout the week, write down the Personal training services are available for answers to as many trivia questions as residents who wish to work individually you can on the answer sheets you will be with a Fitness Team associate to develop provided. Send your response sheets to a personal exercise plan. the Fitness and Wellness Team Personal training sessions by November 9. We will tally up last 45 minutes and cost the scores and the resident who $20 per session. gets the most answers correct will win a prize. We are excited Please contact the Fitness for you to challenge your mental and Wellness Team at x2810, prowess and not your googling x2710 or [email protected] abilities, so please do not cheat to make an appointment in and look up the answers. The the WCBR Fitness Center or winner’s name and all answers to schedule your personal will be published in December’s training session. issue of happenings.

2020 International Council on Tom’s Turkey Trail Active Aging Annual Conference Physical and Mental Wellness, November 5 and 6 November 9 — 13 The WCBR Fitness and Wellness Team has Residents will receive a picture of Tom the once again been asked to share its Turkey without his feathers. Follow clues knowledge and expertise at the 2020 as they lead you on a wild goose . . . err, International Council on Active Aging turkey chase around the WCBR community Annual Conference. Due to coronavirus in search of them. The first clue will come precautions, the conference will be held with the picture of Tom. Each time you find virtually on November 5 and 6. In order for a feather, glue or tape it onto your Tom. the Team to be present and participate, Once you have reunited Tom the Turkey the Fitness Center will be closed on these with all of his feathers, send him back to two days. the WCBR Fitness and Wellness Team to be entered in a prize Thanksgiving Holiday drawing. The WCBR Fitness Center will be closed on November 26 and 27 in observance of Thanksgiving. (continued on p. 14) page 14 November 2020 happenings Wellness Challenges (continued from p. 13) has been giving out prizes to winners Thankful Posters as an additional incentive. Check out the Community Wellness, information below to get caught up on the November 16 — 20 challenge results and prize winners: Five posters will be posted around WCBR. September 21 — 24 Garden Gnome Scavenger Hunt On each one, we ask you to indicate your top choice from the displayed options. As Monday, September 21: a community we will vote on and be Gnome 1 – Front Lobby window reminded of all of the things that we are Gnome 2 – Fountain Courtyard thankful for. Hopefully, this fun exercise Tuesday, September 22: will get you in the mood for a wonderful Gnome 3 – Outside the Billiards Room Gnome 4 – Tribute Garden Thanksgiving! The “Thankful” posters will be accessible from 11:00 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, September 23: Gnome 5 – Overlooking Rotunda Room November 16, until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Gnome 6 – Electric car charging station November 20. Here is where you can find Thursday, September 24: them: Gnome 7 – Pantops Lobby Favorite Thanksgiving Food Gnome 8 – By the Marketplace gazebo Outside the Main Dining Room Friday, September 25: Favorite Fall Activity Gnome 9 – Library Media Room In the RIC Gnome 10 – Planter outside HC Entrance Favorite Fitness / Wellness Activity Winner – Bobbie Hoskins In the Pantops Lobby September 28 — October 2 Favorite Local Sports Team Wellness Charts Outside the Billiards Room Winner – Anne-Marie Lemley What You Are Most Thankful For Outside the Chapel October 5 — 9 Active Aging Week Wellness Charts The Daily Challenges for our Active Aging Physical and Mental Wellness, Week were (1) Take a long or different November 23 — 27 route to the dining room, (2) Touch your It is easy to get distracted from personal toes 5 times, (3) Drink 6 glasses of water, wellness during the holidays. The Fitness (4) Meditate for 15 minutes, and (5) Visit and Wellness Team will deliver Wellness the Fitness Center to pick up a pedometer Charts to each WCBR resident. Take time for Walktober. this Thanksgiving week to intentionally Winner – Arloine Hood participate in one Physical, one Mental, and October 12 — 16 one Community wellness activity each day Walktober for five days. At the end of the week, The WCBR community made the most of return your completed Wellness Chart to the beautiful Autumn weather and walked be entered in a prize drawing. a total of 911,444 steps. Unfortunately, this fell a little short of our goal of Wellness Challenge 2,000,000 steps as a community in one Round-Up and Prize Winners week. Thank you to everyone who reported The WCBR community has been staying their steps. Keep on walking! well during the pandemic through many Thank you all for participating in our WCBR different programs and challenges. Along Wellness activities and congratulations to the way, the Fitness and Wellness Team our winners. happenings November 2020 page 15 Enrichment Thursdays provide young men with jobs improving conditions at national parks. November’s Thursday afternoon programs will highlight the Ken Burns documentary, Upcoming Issues of happenings “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” We will learn about the history of the U.S. The editorial committee of happenings National Park system, including the initial hopes that you have been enjoying your ideas which led to the world’s first national monthly issues. To add variety, we have parks and the expansion of the system over recently included a new section called the next 150 years. “Musings…” for random thoughts that our readers would like to share. We have also 11/5: Episode One, Scripture of Nature begun including works of poetry (provided (1851-1890), 2:30 p.m., 113 min. In they are your own) and, at times, we feature 1851 , a band of Indian fighters encounters monthly topics. For our December issue a place of astonishing beauty, setting in we would like to know about your best motion events that bring others. Yosemite Christmas or Hanukkah memory. Valley attracts artists, writers, entrepreneurs, tourists, and eventually John , who A suggestion has been made that we becomes a national voice for preservation. include a “Did you Know?” section for informational tidbits that will provide 11/12: Episode Two, The Last Refuge readers with very brief tips having to do (1890-1915), 2:30 p.m., 131 min. At the with WCBR, the local community, or any end of the 19th century, some Americans other information that will serve as an begin to question the nation’s headlong informal source of support (e.g., Did you rush across the continent, devastating forests know that if you don’t have time to go to and ravaging entire species of animals. the WCBR Library to renew a book, you Theodore Roosevelt creates parks and can do so online through the residents’ wildlife refuges, and then uses the Antiquities website?). We are looking for helpful tips Act to set aside 800,000 acres of the Grand that are service-related. Canyon as a national monument. Please submit your items for publication 11/19: Three, Empire of Grandeur to [email protected] with the word (1915-1919), 2:30 p.m., 110 min. America “happenings” in the subject line of your boasts a dozen national parks as the park email. Because of space restrictions, we idea turns 50 years old. Stephen Mather try to limit articles to 200 words or less. accepts the offer to oversee them for one Publication is not guaranteed and all year and, in that time, he and Horace material is subject to editing. Due to the Albright launch a campaign to publicize Thanksgiving holiday, all submissions the parks and, in 1916, he persuades for the December issue of happenings Congress to create a single agency to must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. oversee them, the National Park Service. on November 17. (This is earlier than the regular deadline of the 22nd day of the 11/26: Episode Four, Great Nature (1933- month.) Submissions received following the 1945), 2:30 p.m., 114 min. Franklin D. deadline will not be published. Roosevelt expands the national park idea to embrace battlefields and other historic We want to thank everyone for their past sites and enters pitched battles to create contributions to happenings and encourage national parks on the Olympic Peninsula, future submittals which celebrate the best Florida’s Everglades, California’s High Sierra our community has to offer and highlight and Wyoming’s Teton Mountains. He also the intelligence and creativity of WCBR’s creates the Civilian Conservation Corps to residents and associates. page 16 November 2020 happenings WCBR Show Times

Movies Will Be Broadcast on Channel 972 Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m. 11/6: The Third Man, 1949, 11/7: The Peanut Butter 11/3: Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993, NR, Film-Noir/Mystery/Thriller, Falcon, 2019, PG-13, Comedy/ PG-13, Comedy/Drama/Family, 93 min. A pulp novelist travels Drama, 97 min. Zak runs away 125 min. After a bitter divorce, to shadowy, postwar Vienna, from his care home to make an actor disguises himself as and finds himself investigating his dream of becoming a a female housekeeper to spend the mysterious death of an old wrestler come true. Starring time with his children who are friend. Starring Orson Welles, Zack Gottsagen, Ann Owens, in the custody of his former Joseph Cotton, and Alida Valli. and Dakota Johnson. wife. Starring Robin Williams, Sally Field, and Pierce Brosnan. 11/13: Howard’s End, 1992, PG, Drama/Romance, 142 min. 11/10: Indian Horse, 2017, A businessman thwarts his NR, Drama, 101 min. Follows wife’s bequest of an estate to the life of a Native Canadian, another woman. Stars Emma Saul Indian Horse, while he Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, endures residential school and and Vanessa Redgrave. life amid the racism of the 1970s. Starring Sladen Peltier, 11/20: Woman of the Year, Forrest Goodluck, and Ajuawak 1942, NR, Romance/Comedy/ Kapashesit. Drama, 114 min. Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and 11/14: Dunkirk, 2017, PG-13, get married, only to find their Action/Drama/History, 106 min. relationship strained when he Allied soldiers from Belgium, comes to resent her hectic the British Empire, and France lifestyle. Stars Spencer Tracy, are surrounded by the German Katharine Hepburn, and Fay Army and evacuated during a Bainter. fierce battle in World War II. Stars Fionn Whiehead, Barry 11/27: An American in Paris, Keoghan, and Mark Rylance. 1951, NR, Romance/Drama/ Musical, 114 min. Three friends 11/21: Little Miss Sunshine, struggle to find work in Paris. 2006, R, Comedy/Drama, 101 11/17: Maria by Callas, 2018, Things become complicated min. A family determined to PG, Documentary/Biography/ when two of them fall in love get their young daughter into Music, 119 min. An intimate with the same woman. Stars the finals of a beauty pageant look at the life and work of Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and take a cross-country trip in Greek-American opera singer, Oscar Levant. their VW bus. Stars Steve Maria Callas, told in her own Carell, Toni Collette, and Greg words. Starring Fanny Ardant, Kinnear. Joyce DiDonato, and Maria Callas. 11/28: Woman in Gold, 2015, PG-13, History/Drama/ 11/24: Dirty Dancing, 1987, Biography, 109 min. Maria PG-13, Drama/Music/Romance, Altmann, octogenarian Jewish 100 min. While spending the refugee, takes on the Austrian summer at a Catskills resort government to recover art with her family, Frances “Baby” which she believes rightfully Houseman falls in love with the belongs to her family. Stars dance instructor, Johnny Castle. Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Stars Patrick Swayze, Jennifer and Daniel Brühl. Grey, and Jerry Orbach. happenings November 2020 page 17 NOVEMBER AT A GLANCE Note: All events/activities will be broadcast on Channel 972 and https://it.wc-br.org/live until further notice. Additional programing information will be announced as it becomes available. 1 Sun 4:00 TV Vespers, Rev. Elaine Tola 17 Tue 9:00 TV Functional Moves 2 Mon 9:00 TV Aerobics 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 10:00 TV Strength Training 2:30 TV Movie, Maria by Callas 2:30 TV WILL, The Amish Study 18 Wed 9:00 TV Tabata Intervals 3 Tue 9:00 TV Functional Moves 10:00 TV Strength Training 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 2:00 TV COVID-19 Update 2:30 TV Movie, Mrs. Doubtfire 2:30 TV Memoirs Readings 4 Wed 9:00 TV Tabata Intervals 19 Thu 9:00 TV Functional Moves 10:00 TV Strength Training 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 2:00 TV COVID-19 Update 2:30 TV Empire of Grandeur 2:30 TV Memoirs Readings 20 Fri 9:00 TV Aerobics 5 Thu 9:00 TV Functional Moves 10:00 TV Strength Training 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 7:30 TV Movie, Woman of the Year 2:30 TV Scripture of Nature 21 Sat 7:30 TV Movie, Little Miss Sunshine 6 Fri 9:00 TV Aerobics 22 Sun 4:00 TV Vespers, Rev. Pat Nabers 10:00 TV Strength Training 23 Mon 9:00 TV Aerobics 7:30 TV Movie, The Third Man 10:00 TV Strength Training 7 Sat 7:30 TV Movie, Peanut Butter Falcon 2:30 TV WILL, Supreme Court Clerk 8 Sun 4:00 TV Vespers, Rev. Sheri Winesett 24 Tue 9:00 TV Functional Moves 9 Mon 9:00 TV Aerobics 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 10:00 TV Strength Training 2:30 TV Dirty Dancing 2:30 TV WILL, Circadian Rhythm 25 Wed 9:00 TV Tabata Intervals 10 Tue 9:00 TV Functional Moves 10:00 TV Strength Training 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 2:00 TV COVID-19 Update 2:30 TV Movie, Indian Horse 2:30 TV Memoirs Readings 11 Wed 9:00 TV Tabata Intervals 26 Thu THANKSGIVING THANKSGIVING 10:00 TV Strength Training 9:00 TV Functional Moves 2:00 TV Town Hall and COVID-19 Update 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 2:30 TV Memoirs Readings 2:30 TV Great Nature 12 Thu 9:00 TV Functional Moves 27 Fri 9:00 TV Aerobics 10:00 TV Chair Yoga 10:00 TV Strength Training 2:30 TV The Last Refuge 7:30 TV Movie, American in Paris 13 Fri 9:00 TV Aerobics 28 Sat 7:30 TV Movie, Woman in Gold 10:00 TV Strength Training 29 Sun 4:00 TV Vespers, Fr. Henry Minich 7:30 TV Movie, Howard’s End 30 Mon 9:00 TV Aerobics 14 Sat 7:30 TV Movie, Dunkirk 10:00 TV Strength Training 15 Sun 4:00 TV Vespers, Clergy from 2:30 TV WILL, Mikhail Gorbachev Westminster Presbyterian 5:00 TV Service of Remembrance 16 Mon 9:00 TV Aerobics 10:00 TV Strength Training 2:30 TV WILL, The Halifax Explosion and the Rideau Canal happenings|November 2020|page18